commixture

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The volume of rain produced in the Condor’s water cycle is enormous, says Luna, thanks to a unique commixture of altitudes, endemic soils, and solar and wind patterns.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2013

The opposition of colours, though not the commixture, may be called a war.

From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur

My companion got up, giving him a thin glance which I caught in its passage, and which expressed a strange commixture of resignation and fascination,—a sort of perverted exaltation.

From Four Meetings by James, Henry

What a sudden burst of sound was emitted—what harmonious discord—what a commixture of all the tones in the vocal gamut, from the shrill treble to the deep underhum! 

From The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith by Hardie, Charles Martin

The repaired crenellations, the inserted patches of the walls of the outer circle, sufficiently express this commixture.

From A Little Tour of France by Pennell, Joseph